104 XCIII. LABIATZE. | Prostanthera. — 
Var.? sericea. The whole plant white with soft silky hairs. Leaves rather short 
and broad.—Gawler ranges, S. Australia, Mrs. Sullivan; a small fragment in Herb. F. 
step ase under the name of P. essc NR but quite insufficient to judge whether it be 
any more than a variety of P. s cene correspondiug with the white silky varieties 
of P. canaliculata and others of ‘this se 
. saxicola, R. Br. Prod. 509. A slender shrub or undershrub, 
orm, more erect and attaining 2 ft. in others, hoary with minute 
appressed hairs or nearly glabrous. Leaves very shortly petiolate or 
nearly sessile, oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse, entire, flat, rather thick, 
2 to 4 lines long i in the typical form, the young ones sprinkled with — 
appressed hairs, ‘the older ones usually rie Flowers small, in 
N. S. Wales. ipea is river, R. Brown (the specimens all under 1 ft. and the — 
calyx very y pid 
m Taller, more shrubby, leaves c and oo i calyx less hispid and 
pct ee almost glabrous. sed saxicola, A. Cunn. ; Benth n DC. Prod. xii. 562; 
meleoides, F, Muell. = . 107 —— Rocky jouit near Tut aibi A. Cunningham; 
Rew England, C. Stuart 
29. P. odoratissima, Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 291, and in DC. — 
Prod, xii. 700. A small erect bushy shrub or undershrub, more or less — | 
pubescent juna glandular nosse th 
viscid and very strongly scented. Leaves sessile and o ten clustered 
hairs vo ea with glandular ones and often viscid. Leaves on very 
rath 
margins never recurved. Flowers all axillary, rather large. 
short but slender. Bracts linear, obtuse, avr long. Calyx p ube- p 
cent or hirsute, about 3 lines or at length sometimes 4 lines long, - ] | 
